Chapter 50: Testing from South to North! Beijing’s Second Young Master!
“Yalasuo, this is Qingzang.......”
“Cousin, I’m out here now......”
“I’ve never seen a village where the aurora borealis appears.......”
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From south to north, from west to east.
From the delicious Yunnan mushrooms, qingtoujun, jianshouqing, jizong... to the vastness of the Great Plains, where the generous Mongolian people sent them off on horseback, then to the Xinjiang region, with a hot reba and a Malzahar every five steps, where they ate their fill of sweet, heart-warming fruits......
This was the second and third batch of test projects for the Gou Gou C Main Battle Tank.
Of course, the purpose of the tests wasn’t to have the Gou Gou C Main Battle Tank gaze upon pretty Yi girls, but rather to test its performance data in various extreme environments.
For example, at the northernmost point of the Mohe River, extremely harsh cold-zone tests awaited it.
It needed to be tested in an extremely cold environment to verify that all equipment could operate normally and that its combat effectiveness would not be compromised.
Then, near the Golden Triangle in Yunnan Province, the complex and rigorous off-road mountainous environment, where there weren’t even any roads, could test its passability and the stability of its engine performance during prolonged off-road driving.
Therefore, to ensure that the Gou Gou C Main Battle Tank’s various performance indicators could reach peak values, to ensure that it could still unleash its formidable combat power in various extreme environments.
The test team dispatched by the 9910 project was personally led by Chen Jinchao.
Traveling from south to north, filling in the gaps, a bittersweet experience.......
On one hand, they could experience the beauty of our motherland, the outstanding talents, and the treasures of nature.
On the other hand, if the Gou Gou C broke down in an extreme environment, everyone would have to start maintenance.
In the real wilderness, snakes, insects, rats, and ants were like cockroaches, the difference between Guangdong and the north, they were much more numerous and poisonous than in urban areas.
It didn’t take ten minutes to be covered in bites, any exposed area would be covered in welts.
Once, they didn’t know where they came from, but a swarm of wild bees stung Ma Boming on the face, there wasn’t even time to wash with soap, and he became a famous ‘honey bee dog’ meme in later generations.
There was effort, and naturally, there was reward.
After round after round of testing, inspection, and adjustment, the Gou Gou C Main Battle Tank was almost finalized.
Compared to the first batch of Gou Gou C, it was equipped with certain information components, added electronic systems for the commander, and adjusted the chassis suspension......
Even the turret had slight modifications.
Because it was detected that its protection and stability in the face of artillery fire were insufficient, so micro-adjustments were made in the manufacturing process and design.
The turret of the Gou Gou C Main Battle Tank had already abandoned the Big Mao-style soft-shaped cast turret and adopted a Western-style welded turret.
This time, Chen Jinchao added constrained ceramic composite armor to it, and new reactive armor was also deployed on the front of the turret and the sides of the turret tail compartment.
‘An era-defining tank! ’
Looking at the gradually finalized Gou Gou C Main Battle Tank, Ma Boming finally understood the meaning of ‘era-defining’ that Chen Jinchao had told him before.
The Gou Gou C Main Battle Tank was not meant to be just a tank.
It was meant to be the ‘father’ of all tanks in the world!
This monster, born out of nowhere, even if the American M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, the German Leopard 2 Main Battle Tank, and the Big Mao T95 Main Battle Tank were placed before it,
Ma Boming felt that it could make them tremble in fear!
“Jinchao, I have no regrets in my life!”
“Being able to create such a tank, I feel like even if I were to die now, I wouldn’t have any regrets.”
“Really, I don’t even know how it can be improved!”
On the way back from field testing, Ma Boming and Chen Jinchao sat in the off-road vehicle, leisurely smoking and reminiscing.
Behind them was a heavy container truck carrying the recently tested Gou Gou C Main Battle Tank.
It was evident that their relationship had become ‘casual and relaxed’.
“What are you talking about?”
“This is just the beginning.”
“Keep working hard, I hope to see the day when you can develop a Main Battle Tank even better than this one.”
“Let’s strive to be ahead of the West by a generation of technology!”
Chen Jinchao said with a smile.
With the project coming to an end, he was also feeling relaxed.
One advanced weapon after another successfully entering service, that was the surging military strength of a rising nation!
“Yes, yes, I say, the three of us living a good life is better than anything.”
A third voice suddenly emerged from the car, breaking the somewhat melancholy atmosphere in the car.
This person was surnamed Zhu and named Ruilin, he was the second young master of Beijing.
His ancestors were early adopters and partners of New Oriental.
On that level, he was considered the most ‘standard’ mountain-topist in the 9910 project.
But he was different from those people, he never envied, grabbed credit, or stole the fruits of others’ labor......
He also disdained associating with them on a daily basis, on the contrary, it was the mountain-topists who needed to flatter him, using a warm face to stick to his cold ass.
His academic research level was definitely the same, the 9910 project team would be the same with or without him, like a fish without a bicycle.
Anyway, ever since Chen Jinchao started leading the 9910 project, Zhu Ruilin had been like a piece of dog-skin plaster, stuck to Chen Jinchao.
Chen Jinchao asked him why.
He said that he had loved guns and tanks since he was a child, and he admired the people who could create these weapons, so he just wanted to be close to them.
Chen Jinchao told him to scram.
Zhu Ruilin: Scram, so be it!
After getting told to scram, he could still bring two cakes of fine raw pu-erh tea to find Chen Jinchao the next day.
Chen Jinchao couldn’t do anything about such a thick skin, especially since he didn’t disrupt the normal work of the research project.
While he didn’t know anything about academics, he could sleep outside......
By the way, if there was any need for lunch, dinner, or snacks, he could run errands to get them.
Over time, Chen Jinchao just ignored him.
But it was also unexpected that during the test of the Gou Gou C Main Battle Tank from south to north, his deep background connections, his ability to make connections everywhere, did indeed save the test project a lot of local socializing trouble.
As the saying goes, there are no useless people, only people in the wrong place.
Therefore, Chen Jinchao curiously asked him, with the top-level resources he could enjoy, where couldn’t he go, starting from the local level, he might be at the end point that ordinary people would never reach in their lifetime, so why did he have to come to the most ‘futureless’, yet the most arduous research project.
Zhu Ruilin cried on the spot.
He said that he genuinely liked it.
“Scram.”
“Okay.”
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Therefore, the Zhu Shao Ye, who was like a piece of dog-skin plaster, unconsciously wormed his way into the relationship between Chen Jinchao and Ma Boming.
An odd trio, just like that, was formed.
“Scram!”
Faced with Zhu Shao Ye’s statement that the three of them living a good life was better than anything, Chen Jinchao said concisely.
Immediately, Zhu Shao Ye, accustomed to it, ‘comfortably’ remained silent.
“Jinchao, the project research and development phase is about to end, are you really going to leave....”
Ma Boming asked in turn.
The people who had been the most conflicted, in the end, were the ones who were the most reluctant to let go.
“Yes, I also......”
Just as Chen Jinchao wanted to give a final word of encouragement and blessing, a hurried phone call rang.
After answering the phone, Chen Jinchao smiled wryly: “Well, it seems I can’t leave for now.”
Zhu Ruilin: “That’s great!”
“Scram!”
“Okay!”
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